δεινόν (deinon)

δεινόν is an Ancient Greek form of δεινός, meaning “terrible, fearful; clever, formidable”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 1,331 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.543: δεινὸν μορμύρουσα ἐρισθενέων μένει ἀνδρῶν.

Aesop, Fables 99: … λοιῶν εἶπε· “φεύγετʼ ἀνθρώπων γένος πονηρὸν, ἄλλα μὲν πρὸς ἀλλήλους λαλεῖν μαθόντων, ἄλλα δʼ ἔργα ποιούντων.“ Δεινὸν τὸ φῦλον τῶν δόλῳ τι πραττόντων.]

Julian, Emperor of Rome, Misopogon 35: Δεινόν, ἔφην ἐγώ, τὴν τοσαύτην πόλιν οὕτω τῶν θεῶν ὀλιγώρως ἔχειν, ὡς οὐδεμία παροικοῦσα ταῖς ἐσχατιαῖς τοῦ Πόντου κ …

All forms of δεινός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.